Probation Activities in the Rehabilitation of Adolescents Involved in Crime: Examining the Effectiveness of Institutional Practices in Combating Addiction

Abstract

Steps such as adolescents gaining social skills, developing moral reasoning abilities, complying with social norms, and integrating into society should be seen as preliminary factors in the process of combating addiction. As part of the criminal justice system, probation practices encourage those responsible to present evidence to society and themselves during the probation process. However, probation practices adapted for adolescents not only evaluate probation as a penal theory but also incorporate protective and preventive social practices. The current paper focuses on the rehabilitation of adolescents involved in crime due to drug and stimulant substance use. It aims to examine the importance of the social environment in this process from a sociological perspective, considering the social activities in which adolescents participate to analyze the effectiveness of probation activities. Therefore, when analyzing the main problem of this paper, it considers the importance of environmental factors that lead adolescents into crime and substance use. This status is based on the premise that adolescents' participation in social, cultural and educational activities cannot be considered part of social reality in terms of combating addiction alone. During the longitudinal research process of the study, adolescents involved in crime were directed towards visual, educational and cultural activities according to their interests. Then, the changes in environmental factors were examined in the context of sub-factors of the problem behavior scale related to the social environment, both before and after the activities. The research concluded that, to address changes in adolescents involved in crime during the probation process, it was statistically significant to determine the role of their social environment and reveal the effects and importance levels of antisocial behaviors. Additionally, it was found that evaluating the variables in question, as well as the resources applied in the process of combating addiction, was important.

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  title = {{Probation Activities in the Rehabilitation of Adolescents Involved in Crime: Examining the Effectiveness of Institutional Practices in Combating Addiction}},
  journal = {Hacettepe University Journal of the Faculty of Letters},
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  abstract = {Steps such as adolescents gaining social skills, developing moral reasoning abilities, complying with social norms, and integrating into society should be seen as preliminary factors in the process of combating addiction. As part of the criminal justice system, probation practices encourage those responsible to present evidence to society and themselves during the probation process. However, probation practices adapted for adolescents not only evaluate probation as a penal theory but also incorporate protective and preventive social practices. The current paper focuses on the rehabilitation of adolescents involved in crime due to drug and stimulant substance use. It aims to examine the importance of the social environment in this process from a sociological perspective, considering the social activities in which adolescents participate to analyze the effectiveness of probation activities. Therefore, when analyzing the main problem of this paper, it considers the importance of environmental factors that lead adolescents into crime and substance use. This status is based on the premise that adolescents' participation in social, cultural and educational activities cannot be considered part of social reality in terms of combating addiction alone. During the longitudinal research process of the study, adolescents involved in crime were directed towards visual, educational and cultural activities according to their interests. Then, the changes in environmental factors were examined in the context of sub-factors of the problem behavior scale related to the social environment, both before and after the activities. The research concluded that, to address changes in adolescents involved in crime during the probation process, it was statistically significant to determine the role of their social environment and reveal the effects and importance levels of antisocial behaviors. Additionally, it was found that evaluating the variables in question, as well as the resources applied in the process of combating addiction, was important.},
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